NGAYUKU NGURA - MY PLACE: NEW WORKS FROM KALKA & PIPALYATJARA
Past exhibition
Yamangara Thomas Murray
Wati Wanampi, 2019
acrylic on canvas
101.6 x 76.2 cm
19-374
It is a story of Wati Kutjara Wanampi, (two male water serpents), a father and a son, who are living at a waterhole. According to the story, Anangu tjuta (lots...
It is a story of Wati Kutjara Wanampi, (two male water serpents), a father and a son, who are living at a waterhole.
According to the story, Anangu tjuta (lots of people) went to that rockhole for the kapi, (water), which is said to taste sweet.
This upset the father and he told them to go back to their own country. Once the people left, the father and son travelled to
Willuna, where they camped for weeks. Then they returned to Pukara. One day they were sleeping, but wer awoken by a loud buzzing sound. The father and son had to get up and go to collect the honey from the plants. It is there that the Mututa, (male black ants) appeared. They speared the son in the side. When the son started vomiting, he produced the seeds of all thendifferent varieties of honey grevillea plants that are still found there today. They include kaliny-kalinypa, ultukunpa, piruwa, and witjinti.
According to the story, Anangu tjuta (lots of people) went to that rockhole for the kapi, (water), which is said to taste sweet.
This upset the father and he told them to go back to their own country. Once the people left, the father and son travelled to
Willuna, where they camped for weeks. Then they returned to Pukara. One day they were sleeping, but wer awoken by a loud buzzing sound. The father and son had to get up and go to collect the honey from the plants. It is there that the Mututa, (male black ants) appeared. They speared the son in the side. When the son started vomiting, he produced the seeds of all thendifferent varieties of honey grevillea plants that are still found there today. They include kaliny-kalinypa, ultukunpa, piruwa, and witjinti.